I thought I would post this here because Rock hath no place in Metal, and I am a mod here so I can delete all posts that don't contribute to the main topic. (Yes, you heard me. I'm making a serious thread here)

Anyways, I made a metal band not too long ago (about 3 months) and we're making a metal record later this year. It's a comedy record, so it's a lot like the D. But also I want it to actually be a metal record, and not a hard rock record saying it's metal.

I should point out, a few select people do in fact need to pull their heads out their asses. For example, VAN HALEN IS METAL!Proof: BPM of Eruption: (Van Halen) 92-146BPM of Paranoid: (Black Sabbath) 164BPM of Hot for Teacher: (Van Halen) 126BPM of Ace of Spades: (Motorhead) 140 BPM of Stay Frosty: (Van Halen) 178BPM of Breaking the Law: (Judas Priest) 160Some other things: Alex Van Halen uses 2 bass drums, generally multiple base drums imply a band is metal. Van Halen is considered an influence to a metric shit-ton of Metal bands.It should also be understood that Van Hagar isn't metal, that was some sort of hard-rock/new wave hybrid

So that aside, I want to know, what would you consider metal? I've recorded these two song samples done by me (btw, I'm not the lead guitar, I play rhythm, so the songs in actuality are about twice as fast) http://youtu.be/S4lCluFwTfEhttp://youtu.be/a0RB-zbZaYAWould you consider it metal if it was faster? Or is there a more intricate instrumental process in determining if a song is metal?

Silverdream wrote:Panama was an okay song. Everything else they did sucks. Even with the Pick of Destiny they weren't that good.

I don't really like Blink 182, I just mixed it up with Sum 41.

There was literally no elaboration in that. You just said they suck, which is what you did before. They have the best guitarist, a really good bass player who is possibly the best backing vocalist ever (or was until he left a few years ago) one of the best metal frontmen on par with the likes of Ozzy and Dio, and one of the most skilled drummers that ever lived. I can possibly understand why you would think they suck if you are referring to A Different Kind of Truth, but literally every Roth-era song besides that is gold through and through.

They sound okay, but I don't remember anything really noteworthy about them. They're just an average band that fails to deliver anything truly groundbreaking or interesting. Nothing about them makes me want to come back and listen to more when they're identical to thousands of other bands.

I feel that to determine if a band is metal, you have to look at the atmosphere of the songs.

I know, some marching band songs have a very high BPM, but this was honestly the only comparison I could think of. But as for atmosphere, this feels very metal, like Paranoid traditional type metal: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1m-DYM7JvMA